How to Wear DIY: Dresses and the tie dye tee in pretty portraits

8.08.2013

I have some more super pretty photos to share with you today! I posted last week some of the lovely photos of our home taken by Nakalan McKay--she wanted to capture me in my home full of DIY decor, showing it off and showing me in it! So she also captured some photos of me, in/around our home--which I'm sharing with you today!

What do you notice in home/lifestyle photos?

It's sometimes hard to balance the style/fashion/clothes captured in lifestyle photos versus the moment--just capturing yourself and your space as they are now. I want to show my personal style, but I also want timeless images so I can remember what our home looked like--you know, like how you're not supposed to wear super trendy clothes in senior pictures so they don't look really dated really fast?

So much of the home dec/lifestyle photography I love on The Glitter Guide and The Everygirl shows primarily the space, with a few photos of charming-looking people who live there. I don't remember exactly what they're wearing, but I know they look nice. So I'm always aiming to have that effect--I don't necessarily want you to remember exactly what I'm wearing, but I hope I have a classy, pulled-together look!

Nonetheless, I wanted to wear some things I'd made in the photos, just another How to Wear DIY moment. I do wear homemade clothes around the house sometimes, and I do tend to like the same colors for home dec as for clothing... so some of them coordinate!

Then I wore the little white dress. Aaah, the little white dress... part eyelet lace fabric, part pique textured stretch cotton... I love it so. I wore this one in some more pics outside by our fence and blackberry bushes, which we've been visiting on evening walks this summer. I love the fresh, summery look of the dress and evening light!

New favorite photo of myself, I think!

And a close-up on the dress that also shows the differences in fabric I used. Very cool to have this shot!

So you can tell me--if you saw these photos, and the ones of our home I shared last week/on our home tour page, do you notice the clothes first? Or the space??

12 comments

Aaahhh! These are gorgeous! And like you said, totally classy and pulled together. I'm so impressed by your sewing skills and the photos capture your clothes and home in perfect balance. I love that you have these to look back on...I should do something like this, too.

Last time I was ohhing and awhing over your home and now I'm doing the same over your clothes!! These photos are perfect and I think it's great that you wore the clothes you made in the home tour photos